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I am most looking forward to the soon off with Jar Jar Binks. And Phasma (or whatever her name is) of course.
Before Bond there were stars. And wars. But Mark O’Connell didn’t want to be Luke Skywalker. He wanted to be one of the mop-haired kids on the Star Wars toy commercials. And he would have done it had his parents had better pine furniture and a condo in California.
Star Wars, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Superman didn’t just change cinema – they made lasting highways into our childhoods, toy boxes and video stores like never before.
In Watching Skies, O’Connell pilots a gilded X-Wing flight through that shared universe of bedroom remakes of Return of the Jedi, close encounters with Christopher Reeve, sticker album swaps, the trauma of losing an entire Star Wars figure collection and honeymooning on Amity Island.
From the author of Catching Bullets – Memoirs of a Bond Fan, Watching Skies is a timely hologram from all our memory systems. It is about how George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, a shark, two motherships, some gremlins, ghostbusters and a man of steel jumped a whole generation to hyperspace*.
*Action figures sold separately.
Watching Skies on FB
Catching Bullets on FB
"I thought I was the only person obsessed with every single thing written in this book, but fortunately for the rest of us Mark O’Connell is too. This is the ideal Christmas gift even if you’re browsing at Easter.”
– Mark Millar (KINGSMAN, LOGAN, KICK ASS, SUPERMAN)
“People who disagree w/my politics are NOT my enemies,” he says in a new tweet, “but got 2 tweets RUINING #LastJedi ending for MILLIONS & BLOCKED THEM INSTANTLY! #WhatIsWrongWithTheseAholes? "
1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. The Force Awakens
3. Return of the Jedi
4. Star Wars
5. Revenge of the Sith
6. Attack of the Clones
7. The Phantom Menace
2. Revenge of the Sith
3. Return of the Jedi
4. Star Wars / A New Hope
5. The Force Awakens
6. Attack of the Clones
7. The Phantom Menace
2. The Force Awakens/Rogue One
3. A New Hope
4. Return of The Jedi
5. Revenge of the Sith
6. Attack of the Clones
7. The Phantom Menace
+1, Spot on.
I just realized it is 40 years this month, since I saw STAR WARS in the cinema.
20 years for me. I can remember fondly that my dad took me to see the special edition theatrical rerelease of Star Wars. In fact I believe that may have been the first time I saw it too.
I saw that as well, and hated the changes.
Yeah, I'm pretty much the same way. Some changes I didn't mind, but some are just so distracting. The Han and Greedo scene being the worst change in that particular film.
I hated the insertion of Jabba the Blob, and those celebration scenes that were added amongst other things. You can so clearly see they don t fit into the film at all. It was really badly done.
I agree, I don't care for those scenes either. The Jabba scene is pointless and tells us what we already know and the celebrations scenes just try to be a pointless thread to the prequels. Word sure travels amazingly fast in that galaxy.
I was actuallly surprised how much humour there was in the film.